Updates August 4

PGrid

• Continue working on direct brand classification of SSDs. Slightly complicated flow now after some iteration
  • Dual model used to check if a batch of items are SSDs
  • Classifying brand for each title with input of existing brands in database
    • if brand not found allow a research AI to add model to database and reclassify brands
      • if a new model added, use an AI to make sure new brand isn’t a variation of existing brand in database
      • send email if a new model was added
• Updates to classification tracking. Had to create a new type of classification session since this isn’t search-based and refactor all tracking to use tracking objects. Updated classification frontend to view this
• Fixed a bunch of issues by watching the brand classification run and checking the UI.
• Added MCP tools for Claude Code to review classification sessions as well as creating a script to generate a prompt. This seems useful as Claude was able to pick up issues that I noticed while brand classification was running.
• Ran the brand classification workflow on eBay and partial Amazon SSD listings. This created a lot of new brands. Found that we needed support to let AI ignore brands as there are some random brands on Amazon that are SSDs but should be ignored. Added that feature
• Added vibe-coded new page for classification frontend to view direct brand classification results
• Refactored the brand classification to be stateless and just do a check if SSD and then try to classify brand. If it can’t, it queues a job to do a brand spec search using Perplexity. This created around 200 search jobs when running it for Amazon
• Ran into an issue with direct brand classification where there are a decent amount of titles that don’t include the brand name. Decided to not have automatic brand creation and get Claude to review all queued brand spec search jobs and narrow it down to a top 10 which will then go through and get brands created in the database. Just going to ignore titles not easily classifiable for now.
• New server in USA from new provider: advin1 (EPYC 8 CPU, 16GB RAM, $8 USD/month)